crappie

English

A black crappie

Wikispecies

Alternative forms

• croppie

Etymology

From French crapet-soleil (“sunfish”).

Noun

crappie (plural crappies or crappie)

1. A member of either of two species of North American sunfish of the genus Pomoxis. Both are silvery-white with black speckles, and prized as gamefish.
   • 2008 December 18, Gene Mueller, “More and more stripers making their way up Bay”, in Washington Times‎^[1]:

     If it's crappies you like, they're biting in 45-degree water.

Derived terms

• black crappie
• white crappie

 

Anagrams

• epicarp